thenoblesunfish

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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
What's the latency involved?
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Big company software engineering, plenty of remote coworkers.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Beautiful. I have certainly noticed that, at work, despite my desire to be efficient, without this sort of thing, it becomes unbearable no matter how interesting the actual work is.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Agreed - territorial area is only one measure of importance, and probably not a great one. What would be more useful on a wall, if we are interested in such things, are bubbles with size showing population, GDP, life expectancy, etc. (a la
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Is this why the Google product (now just called Gemini) was called that?
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
This might just be an instance of a larger problem: it's a lot of work to onboard people. To really do it well requires personal attention.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
The author is undermining their own point by calling the vibe code "maintainable", when the whole point of the post is that it's not.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Relative to other sports it doesn't require much skill that can't be easily quantified. The person who can produce the most Watts over the required window is a strong favorite. I assume that doping simply makes a difference in a w
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
True, but in this case the story is about the suspicions of cheating themselves, and the new checks, so fair enough.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Read the linked manifesto. I think the idea is to inspire you to set up your own, rather than join this one.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
It seems pointless to write "TODO" if it's not, you know, to do. Yes you should write comments describing ways the code can be inproved, but those can just be comments that don't confuse other people, not to mention trip
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Maybe I'm naive, but .. aren't businesses slow to adopt anything new, unless possibly when it's giving their competition a large, obvious advantage, or when it's some sort of plug-and-play, black box improvement where yo
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
It does contain $1,000,000, just not exactly that much.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Let's all go to San Marino! I think the proximal answers for "why" are in the World Health Report, which tells you why people die. https://www.who.int/data/gho/publications/world-health-stati...
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
English is not well-specified or unambiguous. Programming languages aim to be. This is a massive difference. Recall that laws are specified in English.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
This post and similar advice is aimed at people who feel pain from procrastination. You are not one of them, probably. It's not an inherently bad thing, just like any number of things some, not all, people struggle greatly with (drugs,
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Fantasic advice. Programming is something you can teach yourself. Spend the "teacher time" learning science.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
The chart of games vs highly rated games, as evidence of more stuff, but not more good stuff, is thought provoking. It also seems possible that, at least to some extent, the overall quality of games has gone up with the volume, so people ha
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Only 6-7% of people are sleeping? Wouldn't you expect that to be more like 30%?
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
My solution: a bunch of Markdown files in a git repo. I move between files with Vim's `gf`. I sync manually. If I really need to, I can edit through GitHub's web UI. Not ideal in amy way, but wicked simple.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
Hope this takes off! Early Duolingo was very community focused and lots of fun, and proves people are really motivated to participate if you make the UI easy enough.
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
It's an awesome way to get from nothing to something. I started German with it before doing more traditional classes and live speaking with a partner Annoyances (in particular, ads disguised as "partner offers") aside, I sti
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by thenoblesunfish 1y ago
I wonder if hallucinogens or other altered mental states can produce this effect, by inducing these sorts of internal signals that can't be created by input through the normal channels.
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
Just call them "internal deadlines". That communicates what they are and the consequences for missing then. That's a better way to put it than "fake" - these are real deadlines, but engineers get annoyed when the pe
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
All hail TSV. Like CSV, but you're probably less likely to want tabs, than commas.
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
I run a lot, so people are always asking me about this and what kind of shoes to wear. I think the answer is pretty clear - training and paying attention to what hurts or doesn't hurt your personal feet is much more important than any
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
It's because the types of things people write in Fortran (high performance science codes, for example) tend to be monolithic, single-purpose programs. It comes from a time when a code really was basically one compilation unit (and doin
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
A really good senior engineer knows how to deliver a "quick hack" that is as well-documented and extensible as possible to avoid the most contagious tech debt. There is a big difference between "hack in production" and &
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
Since you're the one who brought up bikeshedding, why are you focusing on this instead of e.g. paying and respecting educators enough to encourage smart people like yourself to solve this and a thousand other problems of how to educate
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by thenoblesunfish 2y ago
How will their mindset not be exploited (even, given time and power, by the exact same now-honest idealists) in the same way as the other people and companies you mention? It's a hard pill to swallow but especially after I read "T

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